Retail Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Retailing
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 33 43
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 +27
Contract jobs citing Retail 10 12 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 4.18% 4.10% 3.51%
As % of the General category 6.71% 6.86% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 13
10th Percentile - £191 £202
25th Percentile £209 £200 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £210 £500
Median % change year-on-year +232.94% -57.95% -
75th Percentile £725 £381 £613
90th Percentile £731 £479 £623
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £455 £210 £500
% change year-on-year +116.17% -57.95% -6.98%

All General Skills
Milton Keynes

Retail falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 149 175 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 62.34% 59.73% 59.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 115 293
10th Percentile £210 £215 £275
25th Percentile £344 £326 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £525 £540 £600
90th Percentile £618 £650 £715
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £450 £510
% change year-on-year -5.56% -11.76% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 4
10th Percentile £13.77 £16.61 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.69 £18.70 £13.17
Median hourly rate £15.12 £30.00 £13.37
Median % change year-on-year -49.60% +124.38% +2.85%
75th Percentile £17.28 £36.75 £13.57
90th Percentile £18.00 £37.50 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £30.00 £13.57
% change year-on-year -52.67% +121.08% +2.42%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Milton Keynes

Retail
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Retail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Retail

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Milton Keynes

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Retail.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Retail

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Financial Institution
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) General Ledger
4 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Automotive
4 2 (20.00%) German Language
4 2 (20.00%) Marketing
5 1 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
1 6 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) B2C
1 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) ArchiMate
2 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (20.00%) Information Management
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Product Information Management
3 2 (20.00%) Release Management
3 2 (20.00%) Service Management
3 2 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Korn
1 2 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (20.00%) Google
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce